Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Wine | | | BUBBLY
That’s right, it’s Value Wine Time at VdV! Yee Haw. And today, ‘bubbleheads’ (no, not Bobbleheads fool) that we are in this household, we’re giving the big BooYah to Aria Cava Brut, a nice, semi-dry Spanish bubbly that goes for about $11 a pop. Y’know that Segura Viudas we always squeal in joy about? Well [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Wine | | | RANDOM REDS
Was it our recent trip to Argentina that got me all hot and bothered about the Malbec? I mean, I had some several years ago and hated it so much it put me off the grid for the entire varietal. Maybe it was the mealy mouthed crotch weasel that I drank it with (let’s call [...]
Monday, November 9, 2009
Wine | | | WHITE
Wow. Come again? Damn buy one vowel and you’d have the entire alphabet in this puppy’s (or should we say Devil’s) name. But about me. Christ I’m wiped. Been on a 3-day bender which, of 72 hours I can recall roughly…wait instead of long division let’s just say there’s parts of all nights that are [...]
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Wine | | | ZINFANDEL
Cheap Wine Alert! Oops, I meant to say Value Wine Alert! As you know, we’re always lookin’ out for ya, and punishing our livers to find you good, sub $10 wines. Now don’t get us wrong, at VdV we love Petrus and Krug and all those OTT, uber-expensive wines as well, and are happy to [...]
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Wine | | | BUBBLY
E Pluribus Unum. Caveat Emptor. Segura Viudas. Confused? Bored? Hey, don’t worry if none of that makes any sense. ‘Cuz it doesn’t to us either. Because we aren’t squawking about a Latin vino today, we’re just ramblin’. It all just seemed to flow. But y’know what does make sense? Valudas Bubbli-cious. That’s right bitches, a(nother) [...]
Friday, August 14, 2009
Wine | | |
I’m really not that into you. Wait. I mean I ‘m really not into Merlot. That’s it. ‘Cuz we love you! Keep those unique visits and pageviews comin’, people! Anyway, All this ‘Mmmm….Merlot is like Cabernet in silk stockings…’ type of B.S that’s bandied about regarding Merlot has always bugged me. So this one’s for [...]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Wine | | | RANDOM REDS
Yeah I know. It can get pretty mundane with all that Mouton Rothchild, Krug and Silver Oak passing its way through those lovely taste buds of yours. Sometimes ya just need to shake it up, get back to your roots. No, not that far back! We’re not talking Annie Green Springs here. We’re talking value [...]
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wine | | | WHITE
Hey an apricot and a peach just had a party in my mouth! I don’t know which one is Paco and which one is Lola, but this cheeky little Albariño (I need to keep cut-and-pasting this word as I have no idea how to get that little squiggle over the ‘n’) is a great change [...]
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Wine | | | BUBBLY
PRO: Cheap! $7.99 per bottle. Excellent value CON: A tiny bit sweeter than I’d like Bubbly – it’s not just for breakfast anymore. But it certainly does help perk up a foggy SF AM, brutha. And in these trying economic times, why spend more than necessary, I say! I mean, the Cristalino Brut Rosé Cava [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Wine | | | ROSE
I know, I know. Common wisdom (which if you possess, means you are prolly not reading this blog), would suggest that it is a tad late in the year to be talkin’ about Rosé. But hey all you SF’rs, has it not been summer-like all the way through November? Just like it tricks the flowers [...]
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Wine | | | PINOT NOIR
OK I was up at a neighbor’s pad last night, a fellow Home Owners Association member, trying to figure out resolutions to all those world-changing topics HOAs focus on like water collecting on the roof, diapers in the trash (really) and not enough parking in the ‘hood. Fun! Frankly I think I deserve better than [...]
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Wine | | | BUBBLY
Cava! For you younguns, Cava is the Spanish ‘Champagne’. Technically, and by law as far as I know, Champagne can only be from Champagne, France. There’s always a tussle around the ‘Méthode Champenoise’ way of making bubbly, which the fine folks from the Champagne region of France nailed and basically trademarked centuries ago. Actually, rumor [...]
Friday, May 26, 2006
Wine | | |
Just in time for Summer, people! This rocking Sauv Blanc should have a Sunkist label on it – awesome grapefruit, melon, pineapple and a hint of lemon. Maybe a little banana too. Hell, this stuff should be offered as an alternative fruit juice in our schools! Ummm, except for that 13% alcohol content I guess. [...]
Sunday, April 2, 2006
Wine | | | RANDOM REDS
Year after year, varietal after varietal, Bogle cranks out some mind-boggling great juice at prices even a brown bag wino can appreciate. Maybe ‘cuz they’re not in fancy schmancy Napa or Sonoma. Or maybe they just wanna bring good wine to the people Whatever it is, keep on truckin’ Bogle! These cool cats are located [...]
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Wine | | | WHITE
The votes are in, and the winner is…wait for it…Weingut Hofer! This 1-liter bottle bruiser packs in tasty layers of ripe melon & apricot, along with nice minerality. A tad sweet, just a touch but still quite quaffable. And since it comes in the beer equivalent of ‘a forty’ it better be. Beer-bottle cap too, [...]
Sunday, December 4, 2005
Wine | | | WHITE
If you haven’t heard of Austria’s signature grape yet, well brother, you don’t drink enough! GV is really growing in popularity – it’s a very food friendly white ( a hint for those of you who didn’t know what color it is), with solid body, minerality & nice ripe fruit. None of that malolactic crap [...]
Friday, October 14, 2005
Wine | | |
Pronounce this saucy little number ‘Vi-nya Main’. I just didn’t know how to add that little squiggly thing above the ‘n’. Anybody knows how, bring it. It’s formal name is Vina Mein Ribeiro Vin Blanc, but you’ll become a fan of it soon enough to call it what it’s other friends do…simply, V-Mein. This Spaniard [...]
Monday, August 22, 2005
Wine | | |
You can find this consistently solid Sauv Blanc from Kenwood goes for about $7 a bottle. And it’s not even in a 40 with a paper bag. Nice grapefruit, pear and citrus flavors with a clean finish. Nothing bad here. GREAT with pizza or just sitting around on a hot day. We drink this stuff [...]
Monday, August 22, 2005
Wine | | | ZINFANDEL
See, we do find you bargains – the Cline Zin goes for $8-10 and is really good. No shit. It’s our pizza and Chinese food wine. They usually select grapes from several different vineyards – Lodi, Contra Costa – yep, not the high-rent districts. But who cares, they do it well with a Zin that [...]